Times Telegram
Times Telegram
The Rev. Jessica L. Merrill, a native of South Hadley, Massachusetts, has been called to be pastor of the Community Baptist Church of Millers Mills. She is the 45th individual to hold that position in the history of the congregation, and begins her ministry there during the church’s 200th anniversary year.
She attended Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, and Westfield University in Massachusetts, and was ordained in 2019 by The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts’ School of Ministry. She also has experience in the mission field in China and has worked as a hospital chaplain in her home state. Pastor Merrill feels called to a bi-vocational ministry and works during the week as a preschool teacher in Little Falls. She resides in the 1879 parsonage across the road from the church. She was installed at the Millers Mills church on Nov. 22 by the Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot, Associate Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches